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MADE IN INDIA: A FILM ABOUT
SURROGACY
A
film by Rebecca
Haimowitz & Vaishali
Sinha
US,
2010, 97 minutes, Color, DVD, Hindi/English, Subtitled
In
San Antonio, Lisa and Brian Switzer risk their savings with a Medical Tourism
company promising them an affordable solution after seven years of infertility.
Halfway around the world in Mumbai, 27-year-old Aasia Khan, mother of three,
contracts with a fertility clinic to be implanted with the Texas couple’s
embryos.
MADE
IN INDIA, about real people involved in international surrogacy, follows the
Switzers and Aasia through every stage of the process.
With its dual focus, this emotionally charged, thoroughly absorbing film charts
obstacles faced by the Switzers and presents intimate insights into Aasia’s
circumstances and motivation. As their stories become increasingly intertwined,
the bigger picture behind offshore outsourcing of pregnancies—a booming,
unregulated reproductive industry valued at $450 million in India alone—begins
to emerge. So do revealing questions about international surrogacy’s legal and
ethical implications, global corporate practices, human and reproductive
rights, and commodification of the body.